2 reasons, I would presume.

1. He doesn’t want his appointees to have to deal with the questions that come up during the confirmation process, and

2. This way he can appoint the worst of the worst without worrying about Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins persuading 1 or 2 others to defect.

It’s not about the House or the EC, it’s the Senate. 2 more reliably R senators makes things worse

They won’t need to pack the court. Alito and Thomas will retire in about 18 months, just after having upheld a national abortion ban. They’ll view it as their crowning achievement and walk into the sunset as GOP heroes. Then they’ll be replaced with like-minded ideologues in their mid-40s to ensure that the right wing of the court will remain intact for at least the next 20 years.

If they packed the court, they will have just opened the door for Dems to do the same. Instead, they’ll leave it at 9 and dare the Dems to do something about it.

And when the economy tanks, him and his rich buddies will be right there to buy everything for pennies on the dollar, putting the screws to all of us even harder.

Don’t forget the simple greed from the corps.

Both have links to sources

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1237103158/immigrants-are-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-us-born-americans-studies-find

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-offending-rate-lower-us-born-citizen-rate

WinCo?

The first hospital diagnosed her with strep throat without investigating her sharp abdominal cramps. At the second, she screened positive for sepsis, a life-threatening and fast-moving reaction to an infection, medical records show. But doctors said her six-month fetus had a heartbeat and that Crain was fine to leave.

Also remember (as you clearly wrote many times) that we’re talking increased risk, not causation. We were 24 and 27 when my autistic daughter was born. Sometimes you just get dealt a rough hand.

Nope. Unfortunately, like so many other things related to US elections, it’s a patchwork that varies by state.

As president, he will demand to speak with the president of Puerto Rico!

To those giving you shit about cutting horrible people out of your life and saying you need to go visit…

Bullshit. Fuck that noise. I have family that I’ve cut out as well (although, luckily, not my parents). I’m 100% open to them rejoining my life, but their hatred for others is stronger than their love for me, and I won’t allow them back until that changes. Spoiler alert: it probably never will, because there’s no love like Christian “love”.

“Agree to disagree” is reserved for things like “I don’t like coffee.” Not racism, homophobia, and sexism. Not human rights. Not basic common decency. If I unfriend you during this, it IS personal. We do not have a difference of opinion. We have a difference in morality.

• @cdvaughn16, Twitter, 2020-06-05

I fucking hate these “personality assessments”. This is from one I just took the other day. One of around 50 questions.

No, the X stops that navigation session entirely, and that’s not what I’m looking for. Depending on where you are going, how many stops you have loaded, etc, you may not be able to easily start a new session. Breaking up the session also messes up any details about the overall trip, if anyone is trying to gather that.

Google Maps does have this function for Android Auto, so I’m not sure why the mobile Maps doesn’t.

Can we please get a “pause” button in navigation apps?

I don’t need to be yelled at to make a u-turn every 5 seconds just because I got off the freeway to get gas.

I do Top/6hrs, but will jump over to Hot if I’ve been scrolling too long and run out of content.

I heard this in my head to the beat of “The hand that feeds,” and it actually works pretty well lol

Just have to watch the drop boxes to make sure no one lights them on fire.

We’ve been dealing with this shit for far too fucking long…

Really fucking cool.

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